Preventative Maintenance Contracts

Preventative Maintenance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Preventative Maintenance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 593 762
Rank change year-on-year +47 +169 -113
Contract jobs citing Preventative Maintenance 52 126 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.23% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 79 43
10th Percentile - £168 £123
25th Percentile £126 £250 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £455 £200
Median % change year-on-year -63.70% +127.25% -
75th Percentile £425 £659 £442
90th Percentile £485 £750 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £126 £575 £200
% change year-on-year -78.09% +187.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile - - £12.50
25th Percentile £18.50 - £13.38
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile £19.50 - £17.00
90th Percentile £21.84 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 - £13.25
% change year-on-year - - -11.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Preventative Maintenance is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Preventative Maintenance
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Preventative Maintenance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Preventative Maintenance.

Daily rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Preventative Maintenance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Preventative Maintenance.

Hourly rate trend for Preventative Maintenance in the UK

Preventative Maintenance
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Preventative Maintenance within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +75 44 £165 -61.18% 515
UK excluding London +29 41 £126 -78.09% 483
South East +34 14 £375 -30.23% 103
North of England +23 10 £126 -80.62% 118
North West +9 10 £126 -80.62% 55
London +64 9 £300 -14.35% 83
West Midlands +34 6 £475 +130.30% 78
Midlands +27 6 £475 +130.30% 119
Scotland +13 6 £693 +26.00% 28
Work from Home +101 5 £450 -2.70% 110
South West +13 5 £268 -53.48% 59

Preventative Maintenance
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.62%) SAS
2 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP PM
1 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.69%) AWS
2 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 4 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 4 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 17 (32.69%) LAN
2 9 (17.31%) ATM
3 5 (9.62%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (9.62%) iSCSI
4 4 (7.69%) ADSL
4 4 (7.69%) Firewall
4 4 (7.69%) PSTN
4 4 (7.69%) SAN
4 4 (7.69%) Wireless
4 4 (7.69%) WLAN
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.92%) DHCP
5 1 (1.92%) DNS
5 1 (1.92%) VPN
5 1 (1.92%) WAN
5 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) DB2
General
1 22 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 16 (30.77%) Finance
3 9 (17.31%) Retail
4 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Architect
1 11 (21.15%) Network Architect
2 9 (17.31%) IT Technician
3 7 (13.46%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Audio Visual Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Programmer
5 4 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 4 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) SAP Consultant
7 2 (3.85%) SAP PM Consultant
8 1 (1.92%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) Flash
1 5 (9.62%) POSIX
2 1 (1.92%) BAPI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.31%) Driving Licence
1 9 (17.31%) EPoS
1 9 (17.31%) Smartphone
2 5 (9.62%) CMDB
2 5 (9.62%) NVMe
3 4 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) FMCG
4 1 (1.92%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Linux
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) Data ONTAP
3 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.69%) Unix
3 4 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 4 (7.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
2 13 (25.00%) Agile
3 12 (23.08%) Break/Fix
4 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (9.62%) Capacity Management
5 5 (9.62%) Computer Science
5 5 (9.62%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (9.62%) High Availability
5 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (9.62%) Observability
5 5 (9.62%) Problem Management
5 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
5 5 (9.62%) SDLC
5 5 (9.62%) Storage Management
6 4 (7.69%) Information Security
6 4 (7.69%) Line Management
6 4 (7.69%) OO
6 4 (7.69%) Patch Management
6 4 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (7.69%) Storage Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) Java
1 5 (9.62%) Perl
1 5 (9.62%) Python
2 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) CCNA
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CCNP
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) MCP
4 1 (1.92%) MCSA
4 1 (1.92%) MCSE
4 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (30.77%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (9.62%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.62%) Firmware
1 5 (9.62%) NFS
2 4 (7.69%) Docker
2 4 (7.69%) GPFS
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 4 (7.69%) SCCM
1 4 (7.69%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) Aruba
2 4 (7.69%) Blue Coat
2 4 (7.69%) Brocade
2 4 (7.69%) CheckPoint
2 4 (7.69%) EMC
2 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
2 4 (7.69%) Google
2 4 (7.69%) IBM
2 4 (7.69%) Infoblox
2 4 (7.69%) NetApp
2 4 (7.69%) Palo Alto
2 4 (7.69%) SAP
2 4 (7.69%) Sybase
2 4 (7.69%) Veritas
3 2 (3.85%) Logitech
4 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.92%) Veeam
4 1 (1.92%) VMware